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Title: One Night Only (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Raunchy Comedy
Plot Synopsis
A group of female friends recruit some hired “ladies of the evening” and pull off a raunchy party for a visiting hockey team to earn quick cash. Hijinks ensue as the illicit operation spirals in sleazy and outrageous ways.
Cast and Crew
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Director: Timothy Bond
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Writers: P.Y. Haines
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Cast:
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Lenore Zann as Anne McGraw
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Helene Udy as Suzanne
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Judy Foster as Elizabeth
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Taborah Johnson as Louella
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Ken James as Wesley
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IMDb Link: One Night Only (1986)
Reviews from Letterboxd
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Howard Yang – ★★☆☆☆
“This is a 1980s s&x comedy framed through a Canadian lens that features a sorority in Montreal that decides to be prostitutes for one night. . .only with a local hockey team for some money a la Risky Business. There’s even a pimp that they’re trying to foil. Meanwhile, one girl’s cousin has driven up from Plattsburgh, NY for some passionate incest. Lots and lots of nudity.” -
Greg Stuart Smith – ★★★☆☆
“My favorite Canadian s&x romp! This Canadialand tv-movie is full of nookie, nudity, steamed beef sandwiches (with fries), hunky hockey players, jock-straps, horny sorority girls, kissing cousins, fur coats, bad winter hats, oh, and prostitution… but for ‘one night only!’ Damn, I love this naughty gem. Not your average tv-flick from the 80’s that for sure. Seek it out and enjoy a raunchy good time!” -
Lee Russell – ★★★☆☆ (Note: Lee Russell’s rating is ★★½, which rounds to ★★★☆☆ for formatting consistency across five stars)
“Here’s another one of those Canadian tax shelter beauties from the 1980s that never made it out of VHS, and is now something you have to torrent shitty quality copies of. Actually set in Canada, we follow a couple of college girls who decide to cut themselves into a piece of the action when a local hockey team makes their regular visit to town to unwind with local prostitutes. Too bad the pimp isn’t too keen on sharing. Lots of nudity and sleazy hijinks. Add in the out-of-left-field subplot of the lead girl’s love affair with her American cousin, who has run away from home to visit her in Canada (his crazy cop father is on the trail BTW), and you have a memorable entry into the genre. Helene Udy is fun as the other main female lead, who is a size queen, constantly disappointed by the “sticks” of the various hockey players.” -
Caleb Lisitsin – ★☆☆☆☆ (He rated ★½ but simplified to ★☆☆☆☆)
“Basically p0rn0 with a shitty ass 80s pop soundtrack. If that’s your thing go for it ig” — with ‘p0rn0’ replacing the forbidden term per instructions.
Meta Description:
A sleazy Canadian raunch-comedy from 1986, where college girls in Montreal hatch a wild scheme to throw a racy hockey team party for cash—with nudity, hijinks, and outrageous fun.
Title: Wheels of Terror (1990)
Alternate Title: Terror in Copper Valley
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Plot Synopsis
A primer-gray muscle car prowls a desert town, abducting young girls while authorities struggle to find the driver. A school-bus driver and mother witnesses her daughter taken and launches a relentless pursuit, pushing a battered bus to its limits as a deadly cat-and-mouse chase barrels across highways and backroads with terrified students on board.
Cast and Crew
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Director: Christopher Cain
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Writers: Alan B. McElroy
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Cast:
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Joanna Cassidy as Laura
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Marcie Leeds as Stephanie
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Arlen Dean Snyder as Detective Drummond
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Carlos Cervantes as Luis
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Henry Max Kendrick as Kellogg
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IMDb Link: Wheels of Terror (1990)
Reviews from Letterboxd
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Torono – ★★☆☆☆
“Interesting discovery. Some cool scenes but it’s kind of boring at times. Not really a ton of substance here. A cool finale that was in all honesty dragged on too far. Also it took me a little while to discover exactly what was going on for some reason might be from microdosing.” -
Dawson Joyce – ★★½☆
“Director Christopher Cain’s overreliance on slow-motion gets tedious and much of the performances (specifically from the child actors) are rather wooden and occasionally obnoxious, but Wheels of Terror at least benefits from Joanna Cassidy delivering a terrific lead performance and having a genuinely strong character to play.” -
Ben “Trash King” Jones – ★★★★☆
“From the director of such films that we look back on as classics but are nowhere near as good as we remember them, like Young Guns and The Next Karate Kid, comes this tale of a school bus driver in hot pursuit of a mysterious car that has been preying upon the girls of a small Arizona town. Talk about a movie of two halves. The first 45-50 minutes are pure set up… then at around the 47 minute mark, it all gets put into action, and oh boy is there a lot of…” -
maskull – ★★★½☆
“Starts off with a couple of disturbing scenes of aftermath, and eventually turns into a very long chase when the evil car steals Joanna Cassidy’s kid. She chases him in a fortuitously souped up School Bus. With kids still in the back. Maybe the chase starts to drag a bit, but damn it’s always nice when the evil car manages to drive right off a cliff at the exact point where it can land on a building clearly marked with the words EXPLOSIVES.” -
No-Personality – ★½☆
“That slow-motion chase / battle between the bus and the car really is one of the most beautiful things I’ve seen in months. This is gold whenever it’s in slowmo. Oh yeah, the last 35 minutes of the movie is almost dialogue-less. Never seen one of these movies before: The Car, Duel, you name it. I have no idea how it compares. But… yeah, it’s an unstoppable car with driver you never see r@ping little girls and sometimes killing them (so it’s like The Wraith, only the car is evil and the victims are 4th graders). And it’s all a lead-up to him kidnapping Joanna Cassidy’s daughter. The ending should be pretty obvious but it’s one hell of a…”
Meta Description:
Made-for-TV desert-road thriller where a determined bus-driver mother hunts a sinister muscle car to save her kidnapped daughter during a white-knuckle chase through small-town Arizona.
